top 50% hacker news stories for 2018-11-21

Silent and Simple Ion Engine Powers a Plane with No Moving Parts

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/silent-and-simple-ion-engine-powers-a-plane-with-no-moving-parts/

7 years ago

Thinking About Thinking (1999)

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/psychology-of-intelligence-analysis/art4.html

7 years ago

Amazon admits it exposed customer email addresses, but refuses to give details

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/21/amazon-admits-it-exposed-customer-email-addresses-doubles-down-on-secrecy/

7 years ago

Why Aren't There C Conferences?

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/11/21/

7 years ago

Slow Software

https://www.inkandswitch.com/slow-software.html

7 years ago

Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18499843

7 years ago

A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language

https://github.com/karan/Projects

7 years ago

★ 47.6k MIT

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)

http://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm

7 years ago

Learn Git Branching

https://learngitbranching.js.org/

7 years ago

Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal

https://amp.rs/

7 years ago

Some Amazon employees bought NYC condos before news of HQ2 location emerged

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/417633-amazon-employees-bought-new-york-city-condos-before-company-announced-hq2

7 years ago

D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler

https://blog.thecybershadow.net/2018/11/18/d-compilation-is-too-slow-and-i-am-forking-the-compiler/

7 years ago

A small French privacy ruling could remake adtech

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/20/how-a-small-french-privacy-ruling-could-remake-adtech-for-good/

7 years ago

You Snooze, You Lose: Insurers Make the Old Adage Literally True

https://www.propublica.org/article/you-snooze-you-lose-insurers-make-the-old-adage-literally-true

7 years ago

Fundamental Algorithms of Machine Learning

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qiq2c85cle9ydb6/Chapter3.pdf?dl=0

7 years ago

Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down

https://www.zdnet.com/article/popular-dark-web-hosting-provider-got-hacked-6500-sites-down/

7 years ago

Concurrency Glossary

https://slikts.github.io/concurrency-glossary/

7 years ago

Video Games in East Germany: The Stasi Played Along

https://www.zeit.de/digital/games/2018-11/computer-games-gdr-stasi-surveillance-gamer-crowd/komplettansicht

7 years ago

My hiring experience as a submarine sonar operator in the Norwegian Navy

https://www.brautaset.org/articles/2018/submarine-sonar-hiring.html

7 years ago

This JavaScript can snoop on other browser tabs to work out what you're visiting

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/21/unmasking_browsers_side_channels/

7 years ago

Wooden bikes

https://materiabikes.com/2018/10/24/why-wood/

7 years ago

CUDA 10 in Clojure

https://dragan.rocks/articles/18/CUDA-10-in-Clojure

7 years ago

How Our Relationship Survived When My Partner Got Sick

https://www.menshealth.com/health/a25225033/male-caregivers/

7 years ago

The Triple Jeopardy of a Chinese Math Prodigy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-19/the-triple-jeopardy-of-ke-xu-a-chinese-hedge-fund-quant

7 years ago

CV Compiler is a robot that fixes your resume to make you more competitive

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/21/cvcompiler-is-an-robot-that-fixes-your-resume-to-make-you-more-competitive/

7 years ago

4,000-year-old termite mounds found in Brazil are visible from space

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-11/cp-4tm111318.php

7 years ago

Texas Is About to Create OPEC’s Worst Nightmare

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-21/opec-s-worst-nightmare-the-permian-is-about-to-pump-a-lot-more

7 years ago

Container Linux on the Desktop [slides]

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17Hml1iFqdXElxOcrh9caQSC5px5mDgaS015Vhaz42ZY

7 years ago

Dav1d: performance and completion of the first release

http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2018/dav1d-toward-the-first-release

7 years ago

Fast, Constant-Time Sphere Indexing

http://donw.io/post/sphere-indexing/

7 years ago

The EU Terrorist Content Regulation – a threat to the ecosystem and user rights

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2018/11/21/the-eu-terrorist-content-regulation-a-threat-to-the-ecosystem-and-our-users-rights/

7 years ago

The Ripple Effect of Death in a Hotel

https://lithub.com/the-ripple-effect-of-death-in-a-hotel/

7 years ago

I Can Be the Bank: Individual Investors Buy Busted Mortgages

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-decade-after-the-housing-crisis-small-investors-try-to-bring-busted-mortgages-back-to-life-1542734455

7 years ago

Apple iPhone Supplier Foxconn Planning Deep Cost Cuts

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-21/apple-s-biggest-iphone-assembler-is-said-to-plan-deep-cost-cuts

7 years ago

Show HN: Easy-to-use curl command to send email notifications

https://curlmail.co/

7 years ago

Apple reportedly buys AI startup with privacy-conscious approach

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/21/18106192/apple-privacy-ai-silk-labs-acquisition

7 years ago

Secure Boot in the Era of the T2

https://duo.com/labs/research/secure-boot-in-the-era-of-the-t2

7 years ago

Falcon Heavy Model – Flight 1 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQt-9SSJ51c

7 years ago

The World Will Be Our Skinner Box

https://thefrailestthing.com/2018/11/19/the-world-is-our-skinner-box/

7 years ago

How does a GPU shader core work? [pdf]

http://aras-p.info/texts/files/2018Academy%20-%20GPU.pdf

7 years ago

WesternDigital/blb: Distributed object storage system for use on bare metal

https://github.com/westerndigitalcorporation/blb

7 years ago

★ 632 Go

Asynchronous Ratcheting Tree: Group Messaging with Strong Security Guarantees

https://github.com/facebookresearch/asynchronousratchetingtree

7 years ago

★ 271 Java

Ask HN: What is a good book to learn about the network stack?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18506651

7 years ago

Facebook's Ads System Suffers Glitch Days Before Black Friday

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-20/facebook-s-ads-system-suffers-glitch-days-before-black-friday

7 years ago

American Is Killed by Bow and Arrow on Remote Indian Island

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/world/asia/american-killed-andaman-island-tribe.html

7 years ago

IBM's future system of the past

http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/

7 years ago

PG&E-friendly wildfire bill being prepared by lawmakers in wake of lethal fires

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/20/pge-friendly-wildfire-bill-being-eyed-by-state-lawmakers-in-wake-of-lethal-butte-county-inferno/

7 years ago

Reverse Engineering Pokémon Go Plus

https://tinyhack.com/2018/11/21/reverse-engineering-pokemon-go-plus/

7 years ago

High score, low pay: why the gig economy loves gamification

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/nov/20/high-score-low-pay-gamification-lyft-uber-drivers-ride-hailing-gig-economy

7 years ago

Mountain Gorillas Are Doing Better

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/science/mountain-gorilla-endangered.html

7 years ago

E-mails from Amazon regarding user's e-mails being disclosed

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/nice-we-re-contacting-you-to-let-you-know-that-our-website-inadvertently-disclosed-your-email-address-due-to-a-technical-error/429577/38

7 years ago

When having fun on Twitter went awry for Brent

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-45901125

7 years ago